Title: Default Style Customizer
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: November 1, 2023
Last modified: May 9, 2025

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Easily change the default styling of your tables in the visual style customizer!

# Default Style Customizer

Even though styling tables with [“Custom CSS” code](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-css-selectors-styling/)
is a proven way to change the design of TablePress tables, it’s not for everyone.
For example, picking colors requires knowledge of HTML color codes and there’s no
native preview.

**But there is an alternative!** The TablePress premium versions offer a “Default
Style Customizer”! This cool feature allows choosing from multiple style variations
as well as defining a custom color scheme in an easy-to-use visual tool! **Change
your tables’ default style without touching CSS code!**

## Feature description

The “Default Style Customizer” can be found on the TablePress “Plugin Options” screen
of sites with a [TablePress Premium plan](https://tablepress.org/pricing/).

![Screenshot of the "Default Style Customizer" feature module in TablePress.](https://
tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/default-style-customizer-1024x587.png)

The “Default Style Customizer” premium feature module.

In addition to the default blue color scheme, it offers red, green, yellow, purple,
dark, and light style variations. These can also be customized, by choosing the 
desired colors in easy-to-use color pickers. This, for example, allows setting row
background and text colors, as well as highlight and hover colors. In addition, 
it’s possible to adjust the padding (the white space between the text and the inner
edges) of the table cells.

It’s also possible to change colors for several TablePress premium features, including
the[ ](https://tablepress.org/modules/responsive-tables/)[Responsive Tables’ “Collapse” and “Modal” modes](https://tablepress.org/modules/responsive-tables/#collapse-mode)
and the [Row Grouping](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-rowgroup/) and 
[Search Highlighting](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchhighlight/)
modules.

This adds a new and easy method to quickly adjust the styling and design of your
tables to match the theme colors, for example. You can of course still adjust the
styling and design of individual tables using “Custom CSS” code! For the future,
it is planned to extend the customizer’s features to also allow changing individual
table styles, in addition to the default styles.

[Use this feature with a Premium plan today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md)

## Usage instructions

To use the “Default Style Customizer” with your tables, enable the feature module
on the TablePress “Modules” screen, which you will see after upgrading your site
to a [TablePress Premium plan](https://tablepress.org/pricing/).

You will then see the customizer interface from the screenshot above on the “Plugin
Options” screen of TablePress. After making your desired changes there, just click
the “Save to ‘Custom CSS’” button. Your styling will then be applied to all TablePress
tables on your site, as the default styling.

Please note: Existing “Custom CSS” or CSS from other plugins or your theme can heavily
influence this feature! As part of the direct email support that premium license
holders are entitled to, these conflicts are solved easily! Just get in touch via
the [TablePress Premium support](https://tablepress.org/support/)!

The “Default Style Customizer” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Premium plans**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md).

**On this page**

 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/default-style-customizer/#feature-description)
 2. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/default-style-customizer/#instructions)